I was dreaming about making one of those deep simulators, like a cooking one. Maybe could be a fun idea!

Hey, I'm interested in "trading tests"! I need people to test my Recolonizer as well... And though I don't need recordings, I'd appreciate it if you also recorded it, as it's indeed interesting to watch how others play! I'll try to find sometime to test and give feedback this week/end. 

Cheers! And good luck with your project.

What is it with the McLeod's and their generosity with free music?

Jokes aside, I am on an open beta stage with my game Recolonizer, which is set to release in a few months (aiming for mid-2025).

While I have some placeholder sounds and music, I would love to have a proper soundtrack that gives the game a bit of identity as I get to the final stages of polish, maybe even make this soundtrack change with the level state, depending on how much time / budget we can allocate. But I'd go with a simple loop in the meantime to reduce the workload.

For now, I definitely need:

• Theme song for main menu
• Pause song
• UI element sound effects
• 3-5 Level soundtracks (Thematic, so I can repeat them in levels with a similar vibe)
  • In the game you defend against invading empires, so I think each empire should have its own soundtrack

The game is currently not funded, but I can pay you depending on what you want to negotiate.

Plus the graphics are a bit low-poly stylized, so I hope they align with your preference somewhat.

If you're interested in collaborating, hit me up contact@forloopcowboy.com

Hey there Zakkujo! I'm currently working on my tower defense game, Recolonizer. 

Does this game interest you? I've got some audio placeholders but I'll need to do a full audio pass to:

• Add original music
• Improve sound effects and add missing sound effects
• Potentially add a dynamic soundtrack that switches sections based on the number of enemies on the screen

Let me know if the project interests you, and if so I'll contact you to get an estimate of how much it would cost. 

In any case, wish you the best.

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Check out my game Recolonizer! A modern twist on the classic tower defense genre.

Release date set to mid-2025, but you can play the open beta now on itch.io!

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Ah, good. Often complex solutions can be replaced by better design. And indeed, nerding about physics is like 45% of the reason my project even exists lol

Looking forward to future updates!

As per my comment, i haven't downloaded anything from your page 

Graphics look great, mate!

Achei a arte bonitinha! Pena que não tem versão pra browser...

What the fuck is this schizo shit? I love it

I sure as hell am not downloading anything from this page though...

If you made this in Unity, it would be cool if you made a WebGl version so I can play it on my Macbook! 

All-in-all, congrats on releasing your school project!

Played in-browser and worked well. As a fellow browser-game-developer, I feel your pain. There's always unforeseen caveats with porting to WebGL. But also, similar to you, I just upgraded my project to a newer version of Unity and it fixed some weird bugs with the browser version of my game, Recolonizer.

In any case, good luck with your development, your game is really solid, you'll go far!

Jesus christ this thing got me really fucking paranoid. Great job mate. +1

Small feedback, change the colors of your page, the contrast between light blue and neon orange hurts my eyes, I can't even read the devlog lol

Came here from the second devlog! Looking forward to seeing where this goes!

Nice work with the character sketch! And great choice with Unity. I've tried Unreal too and it felt a bit overwhelming, both in terms of performance drain and in terms of learning curve.

Also regarding the ranged system, you might be able to solve the issue by manually aiming at the target in front of you (if one is found), and otherwise just throwing it straight forward. You can detect targets in front of you regardless of elevation.

You can do this by parenting a BoxCollider (or any other collider of choide) to your character, making it a trigger, excluding all layers except the one where your targets exist. Also, make it really tall to deal with the elevation issues. Make it as long as the range the character has. 

Add a new script to track targets, let's say, TargetManager to the character. This script has a OnTriggerEnter and OnTriggerExit callbacks which add valid targets to a list. On Update() you can pick the target from the list based on some criteria (closest, unobstructed, etc), save it to some variable, let's say GameObject target. Careful how you write this one, because it might have some performance concerns. Make it run on a less-frequent Coroutine if it does cause performance issues.

Then, on your object throw script, you check if you targetManager.target != null and then use this handy phisics calculation to tell exactly what force you need to apply to the throwable to make it land exactly on your target position:

using System;
using UnityEngine;
namespace Game.ProjectileSystem
{
    public enum BallisticTrajectory
    {
        // Highest arc to hit from above
        Max,
        // Most direct arc to hit straight on
        Min,
        // Somewhere in between
        LowEnergy
    }
    public class Ballistics
    {
        public static Vector3 CalculateVelocityToLaunchToCameraDirection(
          GameObject camera, 
          Transform source,
          float speed, 
          LayerMask layerMask, 
          float raycastRange = 15f
        )`{
            // aim from camera infinitely far a our target
            var ray = new Ray(camera.transform.position, camera.transform.forward);
            if (Physics.Raycast(ray, out var hit, raycastRange, layerMask, QueryTriggerInteraction.Ignore))
            {
                return CalculateVelocity(source, hit.point, speed).normalized * speed;
            }
            else
                return CalculateVelocity(
                  source, 
                  (ray.origin + ray.direction * raycastRange), speed
                ).normalized * speed;
        }
        /// <summary>
        /// Returns the velocity needed to hit a target from a certain position with a certain speed. This 3d vector can also
        /// be used as the look direction for a projectile by using Quaternion.LookRotation().
        /// </summary>
        /// <returns>The 3D velocity.</returns>
        public static Vector3 CalculateVelocity(Transform source, Vector3 target, float speed, BallisticTrajectory trajectoryType = BallisticTrajectory.Min)
        {
            speed = Mathf.Clamp(speed, 0, speed);
            Vector3 toTarget = target - source.position;
            // Set up the terms we need to solve the quadratic equations.
            float gSquared = Physics.gravity.sqrMagnitude;
            float b = speed * speed + UnityEngine.Vector3.Dot(toTarget, Physics.gravity);
            float discriminant = b * b - gSquared * toTarget.sqrMagnitude;
            // Check whether the target is reachable at max speed or less.
            if (discriminant < 0)
            {
                // Target is too far away to hit at this speed.
                // Abort, or fire at max speed in its general direction?
                return toTarget.normalized * speed;
            }
            float discRoot = Mathf.Sqrt(discriminant);
            // Highest shot with the given max speed:
            float T_max = Mathf.Sqrt((b + discRoot) * 2f / gSquared);
            // Most direct shot with the given max speed:
            float T_min = Mathf.Sqrt((b - discRoot) * 2f / gSquared);
            // Lowest-speed arc available:
            float T_lowEnergy = Mathf.Sqrt(Mathf.Sqrt(toTarget.sqrMagnitude * 4f / gSquared));
            float T;
            switch (trajectoryType)
            {
                case BallisticTrajectory.Max:
                    T = T_max;
                    break;
                case BallisticTrajectory.Min:
                    T = T_min;
                    break;
                case BallisticTrajectory.LowEnergy:
                    T = T_lowEnergy;
                    break;
                default:
                    throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(trajectoryType), trajectoryType, null);
            }
            // Convert from time-to-hit to a launch velocity:
            return toTarget / T - Physics.gravity * T / 2f;
        }
    }
}

If you're curious where I got this function, the answer is a mix of physics knowledge and some experimentation plus some ChatGPT for translating said knowledge to C#. 

If you're curious where I use this function, you can check out my game Recolonizer, which is out now as a browser game on open beta! I plan on fully releasing it to Steam and iOS in mid-2025! It is what drives the direction of the cannonballs, as they are all physics projectiles.

In any case, good luck on your project! Hope this helped a bit :)

My attempt to reinvent the classic strategy genre

Last year I found myself desperately uninspired and looking for a new challenge. So I decided to try to make a full, complete, and solid game, which I intend to release on Steam for cheap (5 bucks?) and on Mobile for free, hopefully soon. But until then, the game is on open beta and playable in your browser for free!

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I've always been a fan of TDs, and played way too much Bloons when I was younger. Knowing the rules of the genre quite well, I felt comfortable building something inspired on the classics, but with my own flavour of pirate-inspired thematic, set on a parallel universe's era of the great navigations.

Desperate defense

Defending an island in Recolonizer is no easy feat. You have limited money, and motivated enemies who want to take your land by all means necessary. Worst of all, you don't know where they will come from, and must strategize to defend all approach angles. This game is not for the weak, and will test your strategic capabilities!

But worry not, young pirate. As you fight through the levels, you will unlock...

The short cannon

The standard cannon

The grapeshooter

The rocket launcher

Set sail!

In Recolonizer, you can also build harbors and use ships to form a mobile defensive unit. Once you unlock the Harbor, be sure to come back to earlier levels to try different defensive strategies with boats!

The game is pretty much complete, missing only some content, in the form of new levels and towers... And I intend on releasing it Summer 2025! 

If you have any feedback, leave a comment or fill out a feedback form!

Thanks for trying Recolonizer <3

Post a portfolio! I'm looking for a music-maker for my game as well.

Welcome to Itch! It's full of all kinds of games of all levels of polish, genres, etc. so you're bound to find something you like.

But, since your preferences aren't exactly aligned with mine, I can't give you anything that's that up your alley. But, as others are sharing their own games, perhaps you'd enjoy strategizing and putting together the most optimal defenses to survive an onslaught of pirates in my game Recolonizer (https://forloopcowboy.itch.io/recolonizer). It's quite the opposite of experimental, and not exactly a puzzle game, but it will definitely make you think about how you go about defending your island. 

As a developer, I enjoy selecting the same tags as my own game, and going on the Most Recent tab and seeing what other people are making. It's fun to engage with other people's creations, and see at what stages of development they are. I will warn you to avoid downloading executables. Unless I'm feeling adventurous, if the game is not browser playable, I avoid it.

Que belo jogo! Gostei do visual, e do UI. Achei interessante o uso de diferentes moedas pra upgrade versus compra. Parabéns pelo 4 projeto.

Lovely game! Excited to see where you take it.

Looks like a great start! Might want to include a nice tutorial, I was a bit confused as to how to move around the menus. The camera also feels like it's rolling on the ground, hitting the rocks. Feels a bit weird lol

Audio-wise. Nice little sound loop too, very sims-like, I enjoyed. 

Keep it up, great progress!

Lovely game, mate lmao!

Great little flappy bird clone! Nicely done. Could use some sound mixing, as the effects are very intense, and the bubbling stops playing after a while. Maybe could be worth tying the bubble trigger to the swim action!

Cheers

- FLC